Press Release
December 11, 2008

LACSON: DUMLAO EXTRADITION TO PROVE MY NON-INVOLVEMENT IN DACER-CORBITO CASE

Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson on Thursday welcomed reports that a United States court has approved the extradition of former police colonel Glenn Dumlao in connection with the Dacer-Corbito case.

"I welcome Sr. Supt. Dumlao's impending extradition and eventual appearance before the local court as it will prove, once and for all, my non-involvement in the Dacer-Corbito case," Lacson said.

He maintained that dirty hands in politics are behind efforts to implicate him in the double murder case by the mere fact that Dumlao, along with other accused colonels Cezar Mancao and Michael Ray Aquino, served under him in the defunct Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force.

Lacson said Dumlao had executed an affidavit sometime in 2003, claiming that certain ranking officials of the Philippine National Police, National Bureau of Investigation and the Arroyo administration pressured him to come up with an affidavit implicating the then neophyte senator in the case.

Lacson stressed that his name was never included in the charge sheet even after the 'forced' testimony purportedly linking him to the case came out.

He also reiterated his warning to the Philippine government against resorting to torture and other means just to implicate him in the case.

"The government should not torture them or do anything foul to them upon their arrival," he said.

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